Dive Brief:
- Elsevier and adaptive learning company Knewton are partnering to develop personalized learning solutions for nursing, health professions, and medical students.
- Elsevier — which offers scientific, technical, and medical information products and services — develops around a quarter of the world's clinical content, and its partnership with Knewton will allow it to offer learning solutions that make personalized recommendations to students based on what they already know.
- The first products to come out of the collaboration will be courses for nursing and health professions students.
Dive Insight:
This partnership is indicative not just of the continued demand for personalized learning solutions, but of Knewton's still-expanding influence in that space worldwide. Other partners include most major education publishers, like Pearson and Cengage; foreign publishers like Cambridge University Press, Sanoma Learning, and Sebit; and even Microsoft.